A portrait and biographical record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind. : containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all of the presidents of the United States, and biographies of the governors of Indiana, Part 45

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Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
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J OSEPH M. AND JOHN R. SAUN- DERS .- These brothers are two of the best known educators and have probably the longest record of any teachers in Boone county. The first certificate of Joseph M. is dated in 1858. That of John R. in 1863. The brothers have been efficient and able instructors all these many years and have doubtless educated more of the youth of Boone county, than any other two teachers within the same space of time. James Saun- ders, their grandfather, was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and went away from home, at seventeen years of age, to become a sailor, and for seven years sailed to the four quarters

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of the globe, making several voyages around the world. He finally came to the United States, and, in 1792, settled in Nicholas coun- ty, Ky., where he was one of the pioneers. There he married Susan Hughes, a native of Fleming county, and they were the parents of six children, viz : James, John, Ann, Eliza- beth, Sarah and Mary. James, the eldest son, left home at an early age, and the manage- ment of the farm was consequently left to John, the father of the subjects of our sketch, who was born in Nicholas county, Ky., November 1, 1800, as soon as he became old enough to perform manual labor, he ap- plied himself to his duties with such energy, that his naturally vigorous constitution was permanently injured and in later years he be- came an invalid. On the twenty-eighth of December, 1820, he married Sarah B. Howe, who descended from the famous family of Lord Howe of England; Elias Howe, and other celebrated men were members of the same family.

Although born and reared in a slave state, he abhorred the institution, and in 1846 re- moved to Indiana that he might rear his family amid a purer atmosphere of a free state. He settled on the land, part of which is now owned and occupied by his sons, our subjects, buy- ing 220 acres, on section 33, township 19, Center township. He died, a member of the Christian church, September 30. 1854.

Mr. Saunders was a man of high moral character. His wife survived him to the ad- vanced age of eighty-two years. She was born in Nicholas county, Ky., February 5, 1801. She had seven brothers and three sisters, none of whom are now living. Although Mrs. Saun- ders did not possess a very robust constitution she reared a family of eleven children-Ed- ward H., James H., Caroline T., Mary S. Susan E., Cynthia L., Joshua N., Joseph Mf., Samuel T., Harriet and John R. Edward H.

attended Wabash college for a brief period and chose the medical profession for his vocation, studying under Dr. Furnace, of Danville, Ind., and later, at the Botanical medical school, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He practiced successfully for a number of years in the counties of Ver- million, Hendricks and Boone, and died in 1863. He was married twice and was the father of four children.

Joseph M. Saunders was born April 25, 1835, on his father's farm, near Carlisle, Nich- olas county, Ky., and was eleven years of age when he came with his parents to Boone county, Ind. The scenes and incidents are well impressed upon his mind. They were nine days on the road and had one four-horse and one two-horse wagon. His education began with a subscription school in Kentucky, and the common schools of Boone county, Ind. He afterward attended the Presbyterian acad- emy of Lebanon, taking a four years' course and graduating in 1864. He began his life as an educator on April 5, 1858, teaching a sub- scription school in Jefferson township, district No. 6. He received his first certificate as a teacher August 26, 1858, and in the fall taught the school in his own district, since which time he has been teaching constantly in Boone county, except one winter, when he taught in Wayne county in the Centerville Collegiate in- stitute. He was appointed county superin- tendent of schools of Boone county for 1868, and held this office with credit to himself and satisfaction to the people for three years. He was present at the first county institute, held at Lebanon, and has attended every county in- stitute since. He has always held a first-class certificate and has, without doubt, taught more terms of school in Boone county than any other teacher. He was the first man who pub- licly advocated the grading of the county schools.

John R. Saunders was born in Nicholas

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county, Ky., December 13, 1842, and was in his fourth year when brought by his parents to Indiana, and although so young, remembers the old Kentucky home and many incidents on the journey. He received a common school education and attended the Lebanon Presby- terian academy. He enlisted at Lebanon on July 4, 1862, as a private for three months in company G, Fifty-fifth Indiana volunteer infantry, Capt. James Hamilton. His service was in Kentucky and he was in the battle of Richmond, Ky. He was honorably discharged at Indianapolis in 1861 and returned home, remaining at home one and one-half years, attending to the farm, and, receiving his first school certificate in 1863, he taught until the holidays in Clinton township, and re-enlisted at Lebanon, January 4, 1864, as a private in company H, Eleventh Indiana cavalry, under Cap. Mason Hamilton. This service was principally in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and on the great plains, where his regiment was engaged in guarding emigrant trains from hostile Indians for three months, serving as bugler and musician He was in the battle at Franklin, two days' battle at Nashville, Tenn., and in the campaign following in which Hood's army was destroyed, and many hard skirmishes were fought, among them one at Pulaski. He was mustered out at Ft. Leaven- worth, Kan., and honorably discharged Sep- tember 18, 1855, and returned home. He was never wounded nor taken prisoner, but served actively during his entire enlistment. After his return home, he entered the Com- mercial college at "Bryant & Stratton's," Indi- anapolis, taking a full course, after which he resumed teaching. In the spring of 1887 he taught one term in Minnesota, and was in Kentucky and Georgia in the insurance busi- ness six months. His wife, Cynthia, to whom he was married in 1857, was the daughter of Alexander B. and Keziah (Sample) Clark.

Alexander Clark was born in Ch.llicothe, Ohio, December 5, 1800, was from Nicholas county, Ky., of Scotch descent, and settled in Boone 'county, Ind., with his family in 1831, in Clin- ton township, where he was one of the original pioneers, entering 400 acres of land. He had but three neighbors, all of whom were thirteen miles away. The country was an entire wild- erness. Mr. Clark became a prominent man and was county commissioner. His ten chil- dren were as follows: Mary H., Robert and Elizabeth, twins; John, Zerrilda, James C., Keziah, Nancy, Alexander C. and Cynthia M. Mr. Clark lived to the age of eighty-seven years, and died March 23. 1887, in Indian- apolis, with his daughter. He was an old- time whig, an abolitionist, and afterward a republican, and assisted in the Under Ground railroad, his home being a station, and Mrs. Saunders remembers slaves who were pro- tected at her father's residence. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church many years. His son, Alexander C., served two years in the Civil war, Tenth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, and was in the battle of Somerset, Ky., and was shot through the clothing. He was also in the siege of Corinth, and became exhausted from hard marching and was dis- charged on account of disability. James C., the eldest son, was disabled, and sickened in camp at La Fayette from exposure. He was sent home and died two weeks later.

At Mr. Clark's pioneer log house in Clinton township, the first sermon ever preached in that township was delivered by a traveling minister, January 13, 1825. Mr. Clark was always a friend of the church and school, was widely known for his hospitality and his latch string was always out. He was a strong tem- perance man and an early advocate of the abolition of the liquor traffic. The Clarks early moved from Virginia to Pennsylvania, and were a prominent race of people. Gen.

W. H. SCHULTZ, M. D.

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George Robert Clark was a famous officer, and William Clark was one, of the explorers in the Lewis and Clark expedition. Myra Gaines Clark, the celebrated New Orleans litigant, was of the same stock. The Clarks were sol- diers in the war of the Revolution and in 1812. John Clark, grandfather of Mrs. Saunders, came from Pennsylvania, married near Chilli- cothe, Ohio, where he was a pioneer, and died at Clarksburg, Ohio, on his farm. William Clark, uncle of Mrs. Saunders, served through- out the war of 1812, without mishap, to return home to be killed the next day by being thrown from a horse.

After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Saunders settled on the Saunders homestead, where they still reside. They are the parents of five chil- dren-Fred Clark, Lou Mayme, Harry Sum- ner, Joseph Morton, and Fannie Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are members of the Chris- tian church. He is much respected, has filled the office of township assessor, and has given all his children good educations. His daughter Lou M., graduated at Lebanon High school, class of 1893, and began teaching in Jefferson township in the same district that her uncle Joseph M. taught his first school thirty-five years since. Mr. Saunders takes an active interest in the cause of education, has served as school director, has taught eleven terms in his own district and many terms in other dis- tricts. He is a practical farmer, to which he now devotes the most of his attention. He is stanch republican, noted for his morality and temperance, and has one of the most intelligent families in Boone county. The Saunders brothers have erected a tasteful and substan- tial residence, and their farm is one of the best improved in Center township. It will thus be seen that both the Saunders and Clark fam- ilies are descendants of highly respectable an- cestry, that have done much toward the eleva- tion of our common country.

0 R. WM. H. SCHULTZ is not only one of the leading physicians of Boone county, Ind., but served his country as a gallant soldier in the late war. He is an honored son of the great Hoosier state, who sent so many of her best men to put down the southern rebellion. He descends from sturdy German stock, his re- mote ancestors having been citizens of Wur- temburg, Germany. Mark C. Schultz, the founder of tee family in America, was the third son of James Schultz, who was professor of a college in Wurtemburg. Mark C. re- ceived a liberal education, and became a cap- tain in the Hessian army, and came to Amer- ica with the Hessian troops during the war of the Revolution. He served with the First di- vision under Lord Cornwallis, in North Caro- lina. The Hessians were taught by the Brit- ish that the Americans were cannibals, and that if captured they would be burned alive, and eaten. At the battle of Cowpens, N. C., 250 of Capt. Shultz's command were taken prisoners, with a supply and foraging train. These Hessian prisoners were held in North Carolina, and many of them refused to be ex- exchanged, and, seeing the kindly disposition of the Americans, took the "continental oath" not to fight against the patriot army, and were released on parole of honor. Capt. Schultz was one of the number, and finally settled near Lynchburg, Va., and married Elizabeth, daughter of Susannah (Dale) Earley. The Earleys were of German descent and the Dales were of Scotch ancestry. Capt. and Mrs. Schultz were the parents of nine sons, John C., who settled in Pennsylvania; James, who settled near Knoxville, Tenn .; Peter, the grandfather of our subject, who located near Sharpsburg, Ky .; Samuel, who settled near Stafford, Ky., and died near Mt. Sterling, Ky., a bachelor farmer aged 102 years; Mark C., who first settled near Sharpsburg, Ky., and

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afterward moved to Ralls county, Mo., Abra- ham settled in Bath ,county, Ky. ; George W., located near Harrisburg, Pa., and Henry died young.

Capt. Mark C. Schultz became a promi- nent planter and slave owner and also owned a distillery. He lived to the patriarchal age of 102 years, and died June 2, 1830. . He was a member of the Christian church as founded by Alexander Campbell. Peter, the third son of Capt. Mark C., was the grandfather of our subject. He was born near Lynchburg, Va., in 1786, and died June 21, 1829, of pneumonia. He married, in Virginia, a Miss Wetly, and moved at an early day to Nicholas county, Ky., as a pioneer. He became a farmer and slave owner, but was not in favor of slavery as an institution. He and wife were members of the Dunkard, or German Baptist church, and were the parents of five children-Henry C., Abra- ham, Mark C., Polly and Barbara. This wife died and he married Susanah Johnson, in Ken- tucky, of the distinguished Virginia family of that name; they had six children-John C., Catherine, George, Elizabeth, Felicity and Peter N., all born in Kentucky.

John C., the eldest child by the second wife, was the father of our subject, and was born in Nicholas county, Ky., February 14, 1803, received the pioneer education of the day, and was a farmer. He became person- ally acquainted with the famous theologian, Al- exander Campbell, and was converted to the doctrines of the Christian church, and preached for many years. Elder Schultz married Eliza- beth (Dale) Hisel. She was born July 10, 1806, and died October 1, 1894, in her eighty- eighth year. To Elder and Mrs. Schultz, were born eleven children, five of whom died in in- fancy-Monroe, Henry A., John M., Susanah, Thomas J. and William H., all lived to grow to man and womanhood. In 1832 Elder Schultz moved to Ralls county, Mo., and in

1835 moved to Boone county, Ind., settled on 320 acres of land in Center township, and be- came a prosperous farmer. He became well known far and wide among the old settlers, as he preached among them. He was decidedly an American, and a Jeffersonian democrat, and became one of the original republicans of Boone county, voting for Fremont. He died in Leb- anon January 23, 1859, aged fifty-five years. He was very highly respected by the people · as a devout Christian, and as an out-spoken man of high character.

Dr. William H. Schultz, our subject, was born October 11, 1840, in Center township, on his father's farm. He first attended the district school, and as his father moved to Labanon when he was thirteen years of age, he attended the old Lebanon Presbyterian academy until the war broke out. He was prevented from enlisting in 1861 by a severe attack of typhoid fever, but in August of that year he enlisted, at Labanon, in company A, Tenth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, served three years, and was honorably dis- charged at Indianapolis, Ind., October 16, 1864. his time having expired two months pre- vionsly. He was in the battles of Mill Spring, Shiloh, Booneville, Perryville, Stone River, Tullahoma and Chickamauga, where a ball grazed his wrist: he was also in the battles of Rolling Fork, Ky., where he was shot through the clothing four times; he was at Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Buzzard Roost, Ga., Resaca, Kingston, Ga., Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and three battles during the siege of Atlanta and Jonesboro. He was first promoted to corporal, and after the battle of Missionary Ridge, to sergeant. His hos- pital record is but twelve days, when he was in field hospital He was not wounded, al- though his clothing was shot through thirteen times, and he was never taken prisoner. Sergeant Schultz was always an active, effici-

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ent and gallant soldier. His left leg was se- riously injured by being struck by a caisson on a night march, after which he was exposed by wading in the creek, and suffered much from inflammatory rheumatism, and is lame to this day. After the war he finished his education at a university at Indianapolis, and studie i medicine under Dr. T. H. Harrison, and Dr. -now Gen .- Abraham O. Miller, and one year with Dr. C. A. Gaston, as preceptors. Dr. Schultz graduated from the Indiana Medi- cal college in 1870, and the 'Chicago Medical college in 1880, where he took a special course. In 1869, when yet a student, he be- gan the practice of medicine at the Marion county infirmary, and city 'hospital in 1870. In March, 1861, he located at Colfax, Ind., where he practiced for three years, and in November, 1874, came to Lebanon. In 1887 he moved to Nashville, Tenn., but returned to Lebanon, Ind., in 1890. While at Nashville, he received an honorary degree from the medi- cal department of the Vanderbilt university. Dr. Schultz has a large and lucrative practice, and bas a valuable medical library. He is a member of the G. A. R., Rich Mountain post, and has held the responsible office of second vice commander. He married, January 1, 1871, Mary, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Moh- ler) Mohler. Elizabeth Mohler was no rela- tion to Henry Mohler, who came from another state. To Dr. and Mrs. Schultz have been born two children, Guy A. and Lannes N. He is a patron of the leading medical periodicals of the day, and is a member of the Boone county Medical society, Ind., State Medical society, American Medical association and ex- member of the Tennessee Medical society. Dr. Schultz is president of the Boone county Med- ical society and vice-president of the Indiana Medical society, and vice-president of the Mis- sissippi Valley Medical association. Mrs. Schultz is a member of the Presbyterian

church. In politics the doctor is a straight republican, and socially he has been a Mason since 1864. a member of Boone lodge, No. 9; Council Royal Arch chapter, Royal and Select Masters, and has filled all the offices in Boone lodge, and is now captain of the host in the chapter, and deputy illustrious of the council. The doctor is also a K. of P., Boone lodge, No. 45, and has passed all the chairs. Dr. Schultz is one of one those men who succeed by their own efforts and abilities. He was a good soldier, and by perseverance after the war, he gained a valuable profession, in which he ranks among the first. He is a man of broad and liberal views on all subjects, and as a citizen he is without reproach.

EORGE W. SCOTT, one of the old- est and most experienced farmers and a leading citizen of Harrison town- ship, Boone county, Ind., descends from one of the old colonial families of Vir-

ginia. His great-grandfather, John Scott, came from Scotland and settled in the Old Dominion, where his son, Samuel Scott, grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was born on a farm near Staunton, and grew up a true patriot, becoming a soldier under Gen. George Washington in the Revolutionary war. Samuel married Alice Muncie, was much respected as a model Christian, being a devout member of the Presbyterian church, which he aided liber- ally with his means and influence, and in the faith of which he died, in Lee county, Va., at the ripe age of eighty-three years.

Nathaniel M. Scott, son of Samuel, was born in Giles county, Va., July 14, 1796, was reared on the home farm, and in 1824 married Miss Sarah E. Caldwell, daughter of William and Sarah Caldwell, and in 1831 brought his young family to Indiana; he first located in Morgan county, whence he moved to Hendricks

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county, where he entered eighty acres of land, on which he resided six years, and then settled in Boone county, where he entered 160 acres, on which his son, George W., now resides. Nathaniel, like his father, was a patriotic sol- dier, and assisted in repelling the vicious in- vasion of the states by the overbearing British in 1812, young as he was at the time. Return- ing to the pursuit of agriculture with the re- turn of a time of peace, he accumulated 240 acres of land, and followed farming until the day of his death, October 22, 1878. He had led a virtuous life and did all in his power to advance the educational interests of his sec- tion and in building up the splendid school system of the present day. His charity was illimitable. At heart a Presbyterian, he ad- hered to the tenets of the church, but still was not a member, for the simple reason that there was no regularly organized society of that faith in his neighborhood. In the exercise of his practical acts of charity, he would often kill a hog, divide it into portions suited to the occa- sion, and bear them off to the poor who re- sided near him-give them bushels of apples, potatoes, and other provisions, with which to eke out an existence. No better man ever lived. His exemplary widow survived until April 1, 1883, when passing from earth to a higher sphere, she left behind her a name endowed with the memory of charitable deeds. Her religious faith was within the pale of the Methodist church, and her every step through life gave evidence of the purity of her belief in its teachings. Her five children, whom she reared in the way they should go, were named Morning K., Rachel S., George W., Reuben M. and John M.

· Gsorge W. Scott, whose name heads this biographical notice, was born in Lee county, Va., January 2, 1826; he received a fair edu- cation for his early day and grew up a practi- cal farmer, improving his literary knowledge

by self-study as the years passed away. He early manifested a tendency toward religion and became a member of the Methodist . church, of which he has since been a faithful adherent and is now a class leader. To this church he is a liberal contributor of his means and is one of its most substantial pillars. In politics he is a substantial democrat, with a lingering affection for the Jackson school, but following the party and aiding it in its modern progress. Socially, he has been an Odd Fel- low since 1870.

October 6, 1865, Mr. Scott was married to Sarah Jane Lower, daughter of Andrew I. and Elizabeth (Brown) Lower. This lady's grand- father, John Lower, was a German by birth, and on coming to the United States with his own father, settled in Claiborne county, Tenn. John Lower soon absorbed the Ameri- can view of the rights of Americans and will- ingly lent his aid in their support at the battle of New Orleans, under Jackson. He married Ollie DeHart, a lady of French extraction, and both lived to be aged in years and honored by all who knew them; they were leading members of the United Brethern church, and in the Masonic order Mr. Lower held a very high rank. He served his fellow-citizens as county commissioner for several years, and was never behindhand in yeilding up his serv- ices when the public good required them. An- drew T. Lower, son of John and father of Mrs. Scott, was born in Claiborne county, Tenn., and after a married life of fifty years died February 22, 1876, at the age of sixty-eight years-his widow, Elizabeth, dying in 1878, at the age of sixty-nine years. Sarah Jane (Lower) Scott was born in Hendricks county, Ind., January 12, 1848, was reared to the wholesome life of the farm, and bore her hus- band the following children : Morning A., John H., Nathaniel T., Adelia A., Littie L., Minnie O., Charles K., George W., Guy B.,

Charles St. Scott

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Eddie B. and Roy Cleveland. . These children have been carefully educated, Mr. and Mrs. Scott being strong advocates of mental prog- ress and hearty supporters of the educational system of Harrison township. Mr. Scott has done faithful service as school trustee time and time again, and never tires in his efforts to promote educational interests. He is a model farmer and has acquired a fine reputation throughout his township for his agricultural skill and thrift, and of his farm of 240 acres he has earned 200 acres by his own labor.

Q HARLES W. SCOTT, clerk of Boone circuit court, Indiana, and an enter- prising merchant of Lebanon, is of Scotch-Irish descent, was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, January 25, 1847, and was about five years of age when brought by his parents to Lebanon, Boone county, Ind., where he attended the public schools until he reached the age of seventeen years, when, filled with patriotic ardor, he enlisted, to assist in the preservation of the integrity of his be- loved country, in company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Indiana volunteer infantry, for 100 days, under Capt. R. A. Williamson. He was seized with chronic diarrhea, however, and for a time was confined in the hospital at Nashville, Tenn., but served out the full time of his enlistment, nevertheless, and on his re- turn home, enlisted April 1, 1865, in company G. One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Indiana in- fantry, for one year. He was assigned to duty in the Shenandoah valley, but was again at- tacked by his old disorder, and was confined in the Federal hospital at Stephenson, Va:, and then, again, at Cumberland, Md., and was sent thence to the general hospital at Clary- ville, Md., whence he went to Wheeling, W. The remote ancestors of Charles W. Scott Va., where he was discharged under general ; came to America in the colonial days and set- orders in the fall of 1865. He returned home , tled in Pennsylvania. Hisgrandfather, Samuel 22

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Author: Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co. Number of Pages: 1080

Author:
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1080